Now Can We Call The Cons The Rebel Party?
For months I've been warning that Andrew Scheer aka Schmear or Schmeagol, is a religious fanatic and a right-wing extremist.And that along with his mini-me Hamish Marshall, is trying to…
December 2017
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Reich reminds us that sustainable economic growth is the product of bottom-up development, not a top-down trickle of wealth: What’s the…
New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s sad excuse for a climate change strategy (PDF) is really aimed at nothing more than excusing continued carbon pollution. For further reading…– I wrote…
Volunteering Improves Your Mental Health
Volunteering is good for others, and it’s good for the volunteers too. People all have difference reasons for volunteering in their communities and whatever motivates them clearly helps others too.…
When the victim becomes the victimizer
Liberal MP Sherry Romanado-Morgan was right to object when Conservative MP James Bezan made a sexual remark to her. So who will speak up for this unnamed person who Sherry…
Is Trudeau’s elitism working?
It is getting to the point where even the Conservative opposition in parliament is noticing. They are starting to take verbal jabs at the prime minister’s elitist nature. It is…
The Great Alberto-Saskatchewanian Licence Plate War of 2017: Everything you need to know …
PHOTOS: Tough talk from Alberta Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous, above, was directed at Saskatchewan’s cranky government. Below: Saskatchewan’s lame duck premier, Brad Wall (Photo: Jake Wright, Wikimedia…
Conrad Black is right: The media is full of baloney about the president!
PHOTOS: Presidents Donald J. Trump of the United States and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the 2017 G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany (Photo: Kremlin.ru, Wikimedia Commons). Below, the great…
Mitch Podolak: ‘A Citizen of Earth’
Photo by Community News Commons Last November Mitch Podolak was leaving one of his favourite Winnipeg restaurants, the Evergreen on Pembina, when he suddenly fell outside. As he lay there…
“Adventure it was”: The Impossible Revolution of 1917
Boris Kustodiev, “The Bolshevik” (1920) Through the wasteland of war and hunger emerged a simple flash of light. A message of hope from Russia: the Czar of Russia had been…
For Whom the Wall Fell? A Balance Sheet of the Transition to Capitalism
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what does the balance sheet of so-called “transition” countries (even if the term is no longer fully adequate) look like? For…
Georgeanne Burke, Islamophobia, and Ties to Conservative Party of Canada
Back in July ARC published a story featuring Georgeanne Burke, a Conservative Party activist, and her ties to Islamophobic groups in Canada. Today Evan Balgord and Steven Zhou have dug…
Canada = Soft on Israel, Soft on Trump
We don’t have any reason to hold our heads high when it comes to Canada and Israel or Canada and Trump. It was expected when Harper made Canada Netanyahu’s willing…
Time Magazine’s "Person of the Year." It’s Not Trump But It’s His Victims.
Donald Trump doesn’t have to feel left out by Time magazine’s choice of “person of the year.” After all he’s been very close to several of them – touching, fondling,…
Gojira, the original kaiju
At the end of most Godzilla films, the audience is led to believe the giant reptile has finally been killed off. Blown up, defeated by another monster, killed by technology,…
Sustainability Key to Solving 21st Century Crises
At the end of this century, in the year 2100, my son Brian will be 87 years old. With a life expectancy of around 80 years for boy babies born…
Andrew Scheer: the smirking face of intolerance?
This is just out in Vice, by the always-impressive Mr. Balgord. And it is astonishing: A senior member of Andrew Scheer’s leadership team helped create an anti-Islam organization during his…
Caught on camera: More blood water from Tofino farmed salmon processing plant
A live camera this morning captured more blood water spilling from the outfall pipe of a farmed salmon processing plant in downtown Tofino. The footage, obtained by investigative diver and…
Fourteen reasons
…why we still need effective gun safety laws. 28 years ago. 1 Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student 2 Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student 3 Nathalie Croteau…
The Age of Gangster Capitalism
American public intellectual and McMaster prof, Henry Giroux, writes of how Trump is dismembering American democracy to clear the way for a fascist, gangster state. Just one year into the…